When US consumer advice body Consumer Reports asked its members for feedback on their pay-TV, home Internet, and bundled plans, most companies got poor marks for value and many for customer service. A good percentage of people said they were thinking of cancelling their pay-TV contracts with their cable or satellite company, and acknowledged frustration […]
Vodafone Spain more than tripled its losses in its last fiscal year, April 2018-March 2019, to €601 million from €180 million in the previous year. Total revenues fell to €4.6 billion, a 5.5 per cent decrease, with its EBITDA down €533 million, double the previous year. According to the company, these results are due to […]
Movistar has become the first Spanish telco to eliminate the obligation for new subscribers to stay with the company when subscribing to its Fusión service. The clause will be removed for new and existing customers to make them feel “free to select whatever company for the quality and variety of its services”, according to Movistar. […]
OneWeb, whose goal is to connect everyone everywhere, has revealed details of its Arctic high-speed, low-latency Internet service. OneWeb will deliver 375 Gbps of capacity above the 60th parallel North. With service starting in 2020, there will be enough capacity to give fibre-like connectivity to hundreds of thousands of homes, planes, and boats, connecting millions […]
Sky is in talks over a potential investment in a new full fibre network to be built by Liberty Global that could substantially raise pressure on BT in the UK broadband market, according to FT. Liberty Global appointed LionTree, the investment bank, to find partners for a new joint venture company that will build a […]
According to a report published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide telecom equipment market grew 6 per cent year-over-year (Y/Y) in the past twelve months. The majority of growth was driven by Mobile RAN and Optical Transport sales. Equipment manufacturer revenue in these two technology areas grew 10 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively. The […]
Premium sports streaming platform DAZN has partnered with Italian broadband operator Fastweb to launch a joint package of services. The package, ‘Fastweb Casa e DAZN’, combines the live and on-demand sports offer of DAZN with Fastweb’s high-speed internet and fixed telephony services. The new package costs €40.95 per month (€39.95 for online activations) and subscribers […]
Euskaltel, Spain’s fifth largest telco, controlled by UK’s Zegona, has launched a low cost convergent package at €19.90 a month to boost subscriptions and take position in its forthcoming national expansion. The package includes a 500Mbps fibre broadband, 20GB of data, pay-TV and unlimited mobile calls for six months at €19.90 (€65 regular price from […]
Spain’s fourth largest telecom operator MàsMóvil, together with GAEA Inversión, have acquired joint control of the owner of Portuguese communications operators Nowo and Oni. According to the Competition Authority (AdC), the two Spanish companies reached an agreement with US private equity fund KKR for the purchase of Cabonitel. GAEA Inversión is a vehicle company, incorporated […]
Reliance-owned Jio Infocomm is a spectacular success. It announced its 4G service in December 2015 and launched in September 2016. It won its first 50 million subs within 83 days, topped 100 million by February 2017. At June 30th this year it achieved a subscriber base of 331 million. Jio is now tapping into that […]